The gate for reading: Reflections on the recognition potential

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-97

  Martín Loeches, Manuel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Language processing; Recognition potential; Visual processing; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845219241     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2006.07.001     Document Type: Review

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